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Your Launch Year is anchored in three modes of learning: contemplation, connection, and real-world exploration. As you move through them, you’ll grow your ability to navigate any environment - from familiar to foreign.

There are no grades here. You pass by daring to show up, stretching yourself, and growing.

Contemplation

Each week we’ll provide opportunities to practice bringing your mind, body, and heart together - through meditation, somatics, breathwork, nature practices, and more. All practices will help you shift from feeling anxious to feeling more grounded.

Early on, you’ll be introduced to many modes of practice. Over time, you choose which ones resonate – and go deeper.

You’ll also have space for your own spiritual formation, whatever your faith, beginning with digital detox days and retreats. These experiences help you get still enough to hear the sound of the genuine in yourself.

15 days away from technology and a meditation retreat taught me that home and happiness are a space inside me.
Doug
🇧🇷 Brazil
0:00/1:34
9 days away from technology were hard at first, but helped me reconnect with my ancestors and silence. I returned to a more intentional way of being.
Makuei
🇸🇸 South Sudan
0:00/1:34
7 days away from technology in nature taught me how to feel fully content with myself for the first time.
Wendelien
🇳🇱 Netherlands
0:00/1:34
11 days away from technology with only a compass and physical maps were some of the best days of my life. I dedicated myself to creativity and spending time in nature. I feel new!
Zeiad
🇪🇬 Egypt
0:00/1:34

15 days away from technology and a meditation retreat taught me that home and happiness are a space inside me.
Doug
🇧🇷 Brazil
0:00/1:34
9 days away from technology were hard at first, but helped me reconnect with my ancestors and silence. I returned to a more intentional way of being.
Makuei
🇸🇸 South Sudan
0:00/1:34
7 days away from technology in nature taught me how to feel fully content with myself for the first time.
Wendelien
🇳🇱 Netherlands
0:00/1:34
11 days away from technology with only a compass and physical maps were some of the best days of my life. I dedicated myself to creativity and spending time in nature. I feel new!
Zeiad
🇪🇬 Egypt
0:00/1:34

15 days away from technology and a meditation retreat taught me that home and happiness are a space inside me.
Doug
🇧🇷 Brazil
0:00/1:34
9 days away from technology were hard at first, but helped me reconnect with my ancestors and silence. I returned to a more intentional way of being.
Makuei
🇸🇸 South Sudan
0:00/1:34
7 days away from technology in nature taught me how to feel fully content with myself for the first time.
Wendelien
🇳🇱 Netherlands
0:00/1:34
11 days away from technology with only a compass and physical maps were some of the best days of my life. I dedicated myself to creativity and spending time in nature. I feel new!
Zeiad
🇪🇬 Egypt
0:00/1:34

Connection

Our daily gatherings anchor learning in relationships, not just content. You’ll learn relational skills like trustworthiness, care, and repair – and the art of being fully present. The ability to form authentic connections will help you shift from feeling alone to accompanied.

Initially, connection deepens within the Fellowship itself. Over time, it expands outward to include your friends, family, ancestry, neighborhoods, and beyond.

The Flight School pushes you in the most beautiful way to explore the deepest rivers and the tallest mountains within yourself and the community.
Meirav
🇺🇸 USA
0:00/1:34
My time in South America showed me what it really means to show up for one another and how beautiful human connection can be when we choose it over efficiency, isolation, and fear.
Lauren
🇦🇺 Australia
0:00/1:34
My true self matters here. The Flight School is the first community where I don’t feel pressure to produce or to compare myself with others.
Fabrina
🇧🇷 Brazil
0:00/1:34

The Flight School pushes you in the most beautiful way to explore the deepest rivers and the tallest mountains within yourself and the community.
Meirav
🇺🇸 USA
0:00/1:34
My time in South America showed me what it really means to show up for one another and how beautiful human connection can be when we choose it over efficiency, isolation, and fear.
Lauren
🇦🇺 Australia
0:00/1:34
My true self matters here. The Flight School is the first community where I don’t feel pressure to produce or to compare myself with others.
Fabrina
🇧🇷 Brazil
0:00/1:34

The Flight School pushes you in the most beautiful way to explore the deepest rivers and the tallest mountains within yourself and the community.
Meirav
🇺🇸 USA
0:00/1:34
My time in South America showed me what it really means to show up for one another and how beautiful human connection can be when we choose it over efficiency, isolation, and fear.
Lauren
🇦🇺 Australia
0:00/1:34
My true self matters here. The Flight School is the first community where I don’t feel pressure to produce or to compare myself with others.
Fabrina
🇧🇷 Brazil
0:00/1:34

Exploration

Our assignments ask you to go out in the world and explore - to learn through lived experiences and shift from control to curiosity. We approach it as a team, encouraging each other along the way, asking for help when we need it, and offering help when we can.

A big part of your Launch Year explorations will involve travel. We’ll start with a brief solo retreat and IRL gatherings. Eventually, you will travel to a foreign place and live there for four months. You’ll learn to embrace serendipity, navigate uncertainty, and to stay long enough to let the people and places you meet change you.

An apprenticeship with an artist in Peru began as woodcarving lessons but ultimately gave me unexpected insights into creativity and imagination.
Tristan
🇪🇸 Spain
0:00/1:34
A chance encounter with a 75-year-old monk in Thailandgave me profound lessons in mindfulness, generosity, and authentic cultural immersion.
Owen
🇨🇦 Canada
0:00/1:34
During an unplanned lunch at Sheroes Hangout in India, abuse survivors running a vibrant cafe gave me a strong lesson in resilience and ways women can become empowered.
Mariana
🇲🇽 Mexico
0:00/1:34

An apprenticeship with an artist in Peru began as woodcarving lessons but ultimately gave me unexpected insights into creativity and imagination.
Tristan
🇪🇸 Spain
0:00/1:34
A chance encounter with a 75-year-old monk in Thailandgave me profound lessons in mindfulness, generosity, and authentic cultural immersion.
Owen
🇨🇦 Canada
0:00/1:34
During an unplanned lunch at Sheroes Hangout in India, abuse survivors running a vibrant cafe gave me a strong lesson in resilience and ways women can become empowered.
Mariana
🇲🇽 Mexico
0:00/1:34

An apprenticeship with an artist in Peru began as woodcarving lessons but ultimately gave me unexpected insights into creativity and imagination.
Tristan
🇪🇸 Spain
0:00/1:34
A chance encounter with a 75-year-old monk in Thailandgave me profound lessons in mindfulness, generosity, and authentic cultural immersion.
Owen
🇨🇦 Canada
0:00/1:34
During an unplanned lunch at Sheroes Hangout in India, abuse survivors running a vibrant cafe gave me a strong lesson in resilience and ways women can become empowered.
Mariana
🇲🇽 Mexico
0:00/1:34

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